GUI Timing Out Intermittently after Power Failure

[JP]

Recently, I had two significant power failures and unbeknownst to me my battery in my UPS was in poor standing.  As a result I had two unclean shutdowns.  I replaced the battery in the UPS, tested it (worked fine), and then did a parity check on my unraid server.  The parity check went through just fine with no errors and the speed at which it completed the parity check was almost identical to previous parity checks.  

 

However, for whatever reason, after all this, the GUI does not always come up when attempting to access it.  It will time out.  This is via the wired and wireless network and via different web browsers.  Nothing at all has changed on my network and everything else appears to be working fine.  Before this accessing the GUI was very snappy.

 

I know this might be trying to find a needle in a haystack, but I thought I would see if anyone has seen something like this before?  I'm also sensing some delays when attempting to access media from the server, but haven't had enough time with it yet to say it is anything routine.  

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[JorgeB]

You can try booting with a new flash drive using a stock install, no key needed, then test the GUI access, that should confirm if it's a config/flash drive issue or an external issue.

[JP]

12 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

You can try booting with a new flash drive using a stock install, no key needed, then test the GUI access, that should confirm if it's a config/flash drive issue or an external issue.

Oh man, it has been so long.  I guess I won't worry about getting an optimal thumb drive just yet.  I do have a 32GB USC 3.0 laying around I can use as a test.  And you are suggesting just downloading the trial unraid software on this additional USB drive to test the GUI access from it....correct? 

 

Will the trial software allow me to start the array?  Thanks for the help. 

Edited August 7 by JP

[JorgeB]

25 minutes ago, JP said:

And you are suggesting just downloading the trial unraid software on this additional USB drive to test the GUI access from it....correct?

Yes, and you don't need a trial license to just test the GUI

[JP]

Do the docker applications that leverage the same ip address (via a browser) as Unraid's GUI also go through the flash drive?  I'm noticing the same issue with docker applications via a web browser.

 

I always thought the flash drive was used on startup, but then everything from there was then loaded into memory because repeatedly accessing the flash drive for data wasn't a good thing since they can easily go bad with repetitive use.  Basically, once the server booted up, the flash drive was no longer used and everything was accessed via RAM.  Was I wrong about that?  

[JorgeB]

12 hours ago, JP said:

Do the docker applications that leverage the same ip address (via a browser) as Unraid's GUI also go through the flash drive?

Not sure but don't think so, you may have an external issue.

[JP]

Yea, this is pretty confusing.  Some my docker apps started flaking too.  For whatever reason the indexers were intermittently failing.  A test connection would work and then it wouldn't.  This led me to believe it might be something with the router even though it is relatively new and nothing has been changed in the settings for months.  I had an older model router around and switched it out, rebooted the server, and all the dockers came back to life and everything appeared to be working well.  However, then I tried accessing the Unraid GUI again and same problem.  Some time it comes up and sometimes it times out.  

 

I'm starting to think maybe the power outage damaged more than just one item.  The router is certainly suspect right now so I'll likely get a new one.  I'm also going to switch out the USB on the tower as you recommended and see if that changes anything.  We'll see.